I think Chad just might, in the right system and situation, step in and take a team to the SB one day. I just don't think He will be in a Jet uniform when he does. More like a Rich Gannon or Trent Green thing. Sign with a team need a good QB to take them over the top with above average to excellent personnel and coaching providing the talent. If Chad does have a truly magnificent comeback season, do you parlay that into a high, blue chip DP as comp since he's only signed for this season? Is he a UFA after this? Anyone know the answer out there? Unless the unforeseen happens and he leads the league in passing this year, it would be very hard to make the case for another long term, high dollar contract. That would be like extending Curtis Martin again if he comes back to play this year. You love the guy, but it just doesn't make sense to invest huge dollars. This is getting just a bit off topic. I apologize to all..
He is signed for several more years but... every March, including this year, he has a massive roster bonus due so... it's as if he is on a year to year contract at the Jets discretion.
Chad has won some games for the Jets this year. He hasn't lost any. What I mean by that is none of our losses were his fault alone. Some cases Qb's can lose games for you.
The Jets would be so different...we wouldnt have Kellen, we would have Leinart. We wouldnt have Dbrick. Who knows what would have happened. Interesting to think about though.
not necessary. he actually submarined his own health by tying up so much cap money in his last contract. dumbway then went dumpster shopping for the offensive lineman who were responsible to protect him. had he taken much less then, who knows if those 3 injuries could have been avoided?:shit:
Peyton Manning's offensive line is pretty good. Not Chad's fault for the people the front office picked to protect him.
:rofl: Yeah, he's a mad towel waver. Guy has a lot of passion for the game, and for me it is very easy to like him. He can stay healthy I think he can be a good/great QB when it is all said and done. He just needs a little more talent around him. Even Elway needed some talent around him before he could get the Broncos to the big show and over the hump.
I think if Pennington didn't take the cut, he'd still be on the team. I think they wouldn't have been able to cut him, with the cap hit the way it was. No facts to back this up... it's pure opinion.
Chad is having, thus far, a magnificent comeback season. He's led the team to a better than expected record and close calls against two of the toughest teams in the AFC. However, like some of the other posters in this thread, I'm not sure if he has a place on this rebuilding team in the coming years. Even if this team goes 10-6 and makes the playoffs--probably the best case scenario--this remains a rebuilding and transition team with a LOT of holes to be filled. Chad is 30 going on 31, and by the time Mangini finally implements his system and drafts/signs players to compensate for the holes at those positions now, he'll be in his early to mid 30s. I'm as big a Chad fan as anyone on these boards, but I don't know how much longer, if at all, he'll be around affter this year.
If that is the Jets plan, then they need to take him out right now. One of the few bright spots on this team can't be replaced in 2007. If he is replaced by Clemmens or whoever, this team will lose all of its confidence. That is my personal opinion atleast. Without Pennington from 2002-now, the Jets are nothing special.
The only reason Chad is a contender for Comeback player of the year is the severity of his injury, imo.
The Jets have been nothing special since 1998. We made the playoffs 2 since Pennington has been the starter with 1 home playoff game. The Jets haven't been a special team we have been a second tier playoff team 2 since 02. Pennington has played well. He is ranked about 9 or 10 among NFL QB's right now. If the Jets cut him we might have drafted Leinart or Cutler? We could have gone after Harrington as a stop gap instead of Ramsey? Hard to tell where we would be. I'm not a huge fan of Penningtons ability but I think he is good for this team right now. He helps the process and he has a great feel of what we are trying to do on O which is helping us win. At some point when the rest of the talent around him is better and fully understands the O, Pennington may be the weak link? Right now he is very good for this team.
The overall talent on the team is fairly high, it's ALOT higher than you think. W/ a healthy Chad we have playoff caliber talent. W/o Chad we are probably 1-5.
great qb, superb game manager. hes not the premier kind of guy though. and i dont know why you brought up his contract because hes lucky to be playing. and even lucky we kept him. just because hes rehabbed well and is playing good doesnt change that fact. where else was he going to start if we didnt let him stay? thats just the truth, and by no means is he unerpaid, him playing a full season and winning games for 1M is plenty after how much his injuries set us back while he banked i love him as a jet but dont make him out to be as getting the short end of any stick.
now that hes proven he can come back. but if we didnt give him the chance who wouldve signed him and let him start? we did it out of desperation and it worked.
he would have been signed to an incentive laden deal somewhere and he'd be starting after he showed he was healthy.
who wouldve signed him? the raiders? the lions? the vikes? i dont think he'd have had this kind of success away from coles and the shotgun. regardless, I get your point and makes sense. My main reason for posting though, was that the original poster is making Chad out to be some Pro Bowl QB who got slighted by taking a paycut after collecting money to be injured.
